Phoenix
Phoenix release version 8.0
This is the largest, most stable, and high quality release of the system, since its conception. It contains hundreds of bugfixes, new features, significantly better documentation, and should be a real "game changer". The system has been significantly simplified in usage, and stabilised to the extreme.
Using the Source Code version
IMPORTANT - Please download the Source-Complete-With-Submodules.zip file, which includes all submodules. If you get a blank page when debugging, this is highly likely your problem!
Visual Studio for Windows - Make sure you turn OFF the "Browser sync" features of Visual Studio before you start your debugging session.
Please make sure you have installed Visual Studio, Mono Develop, or Xamarin. In addition, you'll need to have access to a MySQL database, and edit your "/core/p5.webapp/web.config" file, such that your connection string points to your MySQL instance. If you don't have MySQL installed, Phosphorus Five will still function partially, such as Hyper IDE, and some of the other modules - But you will not get the full experience.
Installation process (for non-geeks)
- Install Visual Studio Community Edition - You can skip this if you already have Visual Studio, Mono Develop or Xamarin installed.
- Install MySQL Community Server - You can skip this if you have access to an (other) MySQL server somewhere
- Download and unzip Phosphorus Five
- Edit your "/core/p5.webapp/web.config" file from Visual Studio, and supply your MySQL password in the "MYSQL_GENERIC_CONNECTION_STRING" section. Below is an example of how your entire connection string setting should look like.
- Turn OFF Browser Sync in Visual Studio if you are using the Windows version. This is a toolbar button, that looks like a "round arrow".
- Start debugging by clicking "F5" or the "play" button in Visual Studio
- Have fun :)
Example MySQL connection string setting from "web.config".
server=localhost;User Id=root;Password=YOUR_MYSQL_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE; charset=utf8mb4;
Exchange the YOUR_MYSQL_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE
parts above with your actual MySQL password, which you chose during installation of MySQL.
Installing binaries on a Linux/Ubuntu server
To install a new binary release on a Ubuntu server, type in the following to download the installation script in a terminal window. Make sure you don't have an old "install.sh" file in the same folder from before.
wget https://github.com/polterguy/phosphorusfive/releases/download/v8.0/install.sh
Then execute the following command to make your installation script become an executable.
chmod +x install.sh
Then start the installation process with the following.
sudo ./install.sh
The above "install.sh" script have only been tested on Ubuntu Server, version 16.04.4, but it might work on other versions. You can probably easily edit the actual script yourself, if you'd like to make it work with other Debian based systems.
Documentation
The system is largely literate, and contains its own documentation. However, for convenience purposes, I have included the PDF documentation as a separate file here. You can also generate this file yourself, from within the system.